Meet Marcelo Ebrard — the man who remade Mexico City

A young woman sells flowers at the Jamaica flowers market in Mexico City in 2011. Only Mexico's middle class has grown over the past 30 years in North America, while income disparity has increased in Canada and the United States, according to a study here out Tuesday. (AFP Photo/Ronaldo Schemidt)

Jose Guadalupe Gonzalez walks among giant paper-mache renderings of fantastical dragons and serpents, called alebrijes, with his wife and two teenage daughters in the middle of Mexico City’s Zocalo to celebrate Day of the Dead. Later, the family considered catching a play for free, also in the main…